5 Reais Olympic Games Rio 2016 - Running / Arches of Lapa

Brazil's mint began releasing its Rio 2016 Olympic commemorative series two full years before the Games, a phased strategy that spread collector demand and mint revenue across multiple annual tranches rather than flooding the market in a single release year. The running discipline was among the first athletics events chosen for the series, paired on the reverse with the Arcos da Lapa — the eighteenth-century aqueduct repurposed as a viaduct for the Santa Teresa tram line, one of Rio's few surviving bondes.

KM#698 is one of several dozen types in this exhaustive program, which ultimately became one of the largest Olympic coin series ever issued by a host nation.